Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!
~By Buddy Guy ~
I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.
~By Alfredo Kraus ~
My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.
~By James Earl Jones ~
If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.
~By Holly Near ~
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
~By Ruben Blades ~
I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.
~By Lindsay Lohan ~
Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
~By James Stephens ~
I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.
~By Caprice Bourret ~
Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.
~By Alan Jackson ~
I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
~By Siobhan Fahey ~
It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.
~By Enrico Caruso ~
I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.
~By Willie Nelson ~
Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.
~By Celia Cruz ~
58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.
~By Cindy Sheehan ~
I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!
~By Marisa Tomei ~
If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.
~By Joan Sutherland ~
The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.
~By Maria Jeritza ~
I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
~By Nancy Sinatra ~
I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.
~By LeAnn Rimes ~
I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.
~By Jo Stafford ~
I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.
~By Jane Horrocks ~
Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.
~By Minnie Driver ~
In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!
~By Lucinda Williams ~
I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.
~By Spike Milligan ~
I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?
~By Little Richard ~
The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.
~By Linda Lavin ~
We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
We influence singing but never really songwriting.
~By Charles King ~
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
~By Venerable Bede ~
A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.
~By Jon Secada ~
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
~By George Edward Moore ~
I was just trying out and having some fun. I don't think I'd want to pursue singing as a career; it's an on-the-side thing. It would be great if I could make a career out of it but if I can't, that's OK too.
~By William Hung ~
I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.
~By Don Henley ~
Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.
~By Jane Horrocks ~
My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.
~By Carly Simon ~
I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.
~By Dinah Shore ~
I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.
~By Mary Chapin Carpenter ~
I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.
~By Pia Zadora ~
I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.
~By Rod Stewart ~
You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.
~By Jon Crosby ~
Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.
~By Christina Milian ~
I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
~By Muriel Rukeyser ~
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~
Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.
~By Dennis Brown ~
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
~By Franz Liszt ~
They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.
~By Audie Murphy ~
Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.
~By Compay Segundo ~
He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.
~By Nusrat F. A. Khan ~
I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.
~By Christopher Walken ~
I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.
~By Compay Segundo ~
The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
Singing becomes a form of therapy.
~By Placido Domingo ~
Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.
~By Julie Andrews ~
But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music.
~By Michael Tilson Thomas ~
What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
~By Dwayne Johnson ~
I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.
~By Aaron Carter ~
Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.
~By Chantal Kreviazuk ~
I always thought I was singing American folk music.
~By Lonnie Donegan ~
When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.
~By Dominic Chianese ~
I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.
~By Madeleine Peyroux ~
I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
~By Namie Amuro ~
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
~By Cab Calloway ~
I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.
~By Keith David ~
I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
~By LaToya London ~
Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.
~By James Galway ~
Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.
~By Colin R. Davis ~
I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.
~By David Friedman ~
I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling.
~By Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz ~
Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.
~By Dick Van Dyke ~
I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.
~By John Mayer ~
We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.
~By William Brewster ~
But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.
~By Placido Domingo ~
I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.
~By Larry Wilcox ~
I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.
~By Keith David ~
I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.
~By Jerry Wexler ~
No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
~By Naima Adedapo ~
Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.
~By Shania Twain ~
All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.
~By Bobby Vinton ~
The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.
~By Vince Gill ~
I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.
~By Minnie Driver ~
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
~By Patrick MacGill ~
Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.
~By Simone Schwarz-Bart ~
Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
~By Eddie Izzard ~
Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.
~By Amanda Seyfried ~
That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.
~By Wyclef Jean ~
Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.
~By Gregory Harrison ~
My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.
~By Dan Hicks ~
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
~By King Hussein ~
I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.
~By Chris Burke ~
I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.
~By Debby Boone ~
In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.
~By Norah Jones ~
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